Richard Conniff

Richard Conniff is a 2007 Guggenheim Fellow and a National Magazine Award-winning writer, whose articles have appeared inTime,Smithsonian,The Atlantic,The New York Times Magazine, andNational Geographic. His upcoming book,Swimming With Piranhas at Feeding Time: My Life Doing Dumb Stuff With Animals, is due out from W.W. Norton in May. He is the author of six other books, includingThe Natural History of the Rich: A Field GuideandSpineless Wonders: Strange Tales of the Invertebrate World. Conniff has also written forYale e360aboutcarbon offsetsandhis proposed green scorecardfor Congress and the Obama administration.